Letters: Keep regime

Posted:
12/03/2012 12:00:00 AM MST

I understand City Representative Carl Robinson's frustration with Joyce Wilson, but I believe that now is not the time for a regime change at City Hall.

Those now in power have the vision for a new Downtown. If you agree with the vision then you want these current power brokers to implement it. If you were against tearing down City Hall and building a baseball stadium, don't you think this group should be the ones who fight their way through getting the job done?

I say Steve Ortega for mayor and Joyce Wilson for "Supreme Leader."

Don Baumgardt

West El Paso

Downtown stadium

The City Council, Foster and Hunt must be feeling smug about signing up the baseball team. But if the people don't want it they are not going to support it. And the team will be playing in an empty stadium.

The sad thing about all this is that us citizens will end up paying for the upkeep. In a few years it will be another empty eyesore Downtown and the citizens are already stuck with high taxes.

It looks like Paul Foster is determined to have his way. It all started with the mall (He is over-extending himself?).

What is the City Council thinking? This is certainly not good for El Paso. This is not Chicago or St. Louis, this is El Paso. Downtown is not the best place to put a stadium. We already have a good stadium. Why not utilize it, or find a different location.

Maria Dubitsky

East El Paso

Strengthen dollar

In writing my recent ghost town books, I have learned much of the value of money -- gold and silver and the like.

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In the quest and goal to save our country, we must return to a stronger dollar! How and why? FDR took gold and value from our dollar and Richard Nixon took silver away. We have tried to live with "printing press" money to a sad and negative end.

President Obama could be a winner by returning gold or silver as backers of our dollar, the way it was under our Founders.

Did you ever wonder why the Spanish "pieces of eight" lasted and were traded for centuries? They had intrinsic worth and were respected by the world over -- and still are today.

Bill Rakocy

Upper Valley

Social Security

I trust that most of your readers are aware that the top income limit for Social Security deductions is $110,100.

If Congress merely removes this limit, Social Security would thereby be saved for decades to come, but no one ever suggests doing this.

No one in the administration, no one in Congress, of either party, no one on the television political talk shows and certainly no one in the print media.

I wonder why not?

Certainly, a baseball player making a $1 million a month would not be averse to paying a little extra to save Social Security for all the less fortunate Americans out there.

Frank Bennett

East El Paso

Love America

As an immigrant from Osterreich, Austria, I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people whose just powers are derived from the consent of the government, a democracy in a republic, a sovereign nation of many sovereign states; a perfect union one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.

I therefore believe it is my duty to this country to love it, its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

Let us ever remember that our interests are in accord and not in conflict and that out true greatness rests on our victories of peace rather than of war.

And by the blessing of God, may the country itself become again a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace and of liberty forever.

Chrysanthos G. Gruenangerl

Northeast El Paso

Insights Museum

As a former El Pasoan and member of the Insights Museum board of directors, it breaks my heart to read that the Insights experience will be lost to the following generations of great city -- forever.

Insights and all that it offered was the dream of Chuck and Mary Ann Dodson, and without their support and perseverance it probably would still be in the basement of the Mills Building.

We never planned on making money -- just enough to keep the doors open and bring interesting and topical exhibits to the city. And we did just that. Remember the traveling dinosaur exhibits and all the hands-on exhibits where the kids could study how things worked?

Robert Wood

Sandia Park, N.M.

Mayoral view

El Paso should not vote Steve Ortega in as mayor. It would lead to nothing but trouble.